JohnnyHerz
1. E-myth Revisited (absolute must read for small to midsize business owners) 2. Competitive Strategy 3. Discipline of Market Leaders 4. Good to Great 5. Built to Last
Definitely NOT a technology topic.
should be flagged.
“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.” ― Mark Twain
just can't stomache ignorance
Like it or not, Tesla as a company is still years ahead of other US competitors and has a significant competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Tesla is not "in bad shape" relative to the competition. IF you are going to talk about auto companies in "bad shape", Tesla doesn't even make the top 10
However, I've read countless Bloomberg articles on Tesla, and the company has significant competitive advantage over every automaker (Including BYD) when it comes to manufacturing and selling EV's in the US and elsewhere.
If you are inclined to drive an EV, or own stock in an EV company, Tesla is still the gold standard.
What you are struggling with is simply a fact of life for any entrepreneur.
Get an idea, work on it, launch and discover if there is a market fit. IF no, move to next idea, start process over. Almost every great business has examples of pivoting from the original product or service and trying other ideas until landing on the one that hits.
You've built a tool. call it a your "prototype". first test case is you. do you like using it? does it truly make your life easier and more productive? IF your answer is meh, then put it aside and move on to other things.
It's depressing to leave an idea for dead. It's your baby and you love it, but it may just not be that idea's time, you may be able to come back to it at a later date with new eyes and find a way. Regardless, the journey of building something is of value to you - you can't help but learn from the experience and apply those lessons to the next endeavor.
Also, I'll state the obvious here... Building a tool for the market and building a company to sell it are two very VERY different things.
The fact that you hit the wall when it came time to take your product to market might be an indicator for you. Maybe your are Woz and you just need to find your Steve.
If this try is a failure, continue to believe in yourself and never give up.
So many successful entrepreneurs are serial failures, until they aren't.
Fauci has stated that RFK's book is full of lies. If that was true, then why has Fauci not sued RFK for libel?
"Methinks he doth protest too much"
Yet here we have WAPO - another bastion of liberal thought media - taking what virtually amounts to an opposing stance to Bloomberg while providing tacit support for RFK.
looks like the billionaire media moguls aren't quite on the same page. They might want to check their jersey color to see if they are still on the same team.
"I'd much rather live in a country that embraces everyone's right to BE FULL OF SHIT"
Twitter was biased against Conservatives and the Right screamed and cried foul.
X is biased against Liberals and the Left screams and cries foul.
(Shrug)
Twitter was biased against Conservatives and the Right screamed and cried foul.
X is biased against Liberals and the Left screams and cries foul.
Regardless, Google is playing bully with money and power that the rest of the search engines don't have(ex:Bing).
Let's be real here. Google paid Reddit big money and Reddit is giving them special access by blocking Googles competition.
Looks like more big tech monopolistic behavior to me.
I'm about to test out Kerio's mail client for mac, since i run my own Kerio mail server.
With all the security fails that the big mail providers routinely have, I am regularly reminded of how happy I am that i've stuck with running my own mail server
If you read to the bottom of the article, the Feds SSA statistics should make you raise your eyebrow and ask what the #$%& is up.
If all "recalls" where this simple to fix, the word "recall" wouldn't carry the same negative implication. I'd call this a "re-mod" - quick upgrade repair or modification to existing software.
The is a reason why LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) is one of the most successful and valuable companies in the world.
I'm not saying it's easy. Any business endeavor, regardless of product market fit, still requires execution. Easier said than done, but many an entrepreneur has proven their critics wrong.
Americans are known for their willingness to take business risk and fail then pick themselves up and try again. Makes life exciting and worth living.
But that said, I'm not going to buy "American Made" just because it is, i'm going to buy "Quality Made" and if it happens to be a domestic manufacturer than all the better!
I think that a toaster is a good place to start!
This is about our government and it's abuse of power.